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I Did Send Help by David Wright
Suffering is inescapable. Some battle sickness—chronic pain, clinical depression, spinal injuries, cancer. Others wrestle with the mental anguish caused by death, family turmoil, or divorce. In developing countries, human suffering often involves hunger, lack of medical care, and the endless nightmare of civil war or oppressive dictatorship. All this pain makes the heart of a caring person ache. If that person happens to be a Chrisian, he may wonder why God doesn’t do something.
In the book Teaching Your Children about God, David Wolpe writes of a man “who once stood before God. ‘Dear God,’ he cried out, ‘look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don’t you send help?’ God responded, ‘I did send help. I sent you.’”
Jesus of Nazareth “went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil” (Acts 10:38). When he cured the sick and freed demoniacs, God was “doing some- thing” about suffering. We, of course, lack the Lord’s amazing powers, and yet we are the members of His “body” (1 Cor. 12:27). We are carrying on His work. Therefore, every time we visit the nursing home or hospital, prepare a meal for a shut-in, attend a funeral, or give money to a needy neighbor, God is “sending help” to those in anguish and distress.
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